A tale of two Sans

Long before the dark-skinned Bantu people arrived in the southern part of Africa, an ancient race of light-skinned people ruled the fertile lands of the south. They were skilled hunter-gatherers with little disposition for agriculture.

 As Bantu people encroached into their area and took over all the fertile land, most of them were displaced to the less fertile semi-desert areas where, for centuries, clad in minimalist animal skins and simple dwellings of sticks and grass, they eked out a harsh but relatively simple existence in the Great Thirst-land – the Kgala-gadi.